Next week, for the days of 1 and 2 October, the city of Paris will be
the site of the 2009 Open World Forum [0]. Along with, I hope and
expect, a great number from the OpenOffice.org francophone community,
including Sophie Gautier, Charles Schulz, and others, I shall be there
advancing our cause. As well, I'll be giving a couple of presentations
both days, on subjects ranging from the general (Foss, Clouds, the
desktop, etc.) to more specific and related to working with and on
OOo. The conference promises to be large, intense, important.
The Community Council has also made our presence there that much more
possible, and I thank them for it.
But I should hope that this event, like others before it and like
others to come, is a threshold to other work. OOo has reached, as we
always seem to, yet another milestone: of popularity, of acceptance,
of use, of speculation. The desktop itself is evolving--we all know
that--and the future direction it may take, for enterprises as well as
for consumers, is one that we, OOo, are shaping. No other application
provides the productivity tools using widely accepted open standards
as OpenOffice.org. Any device, mobile or not, to be actually something
more than an ultimately unsatisfactory toy, needs the kind of
productivity tools only OpenOffice.org can provide.
best
Louis
[0] www.openworldforum.org
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